Smprovelvient in revolving gas-burners



1.0. BELKNAP.

Revolving Gas-Burners. No.149,976, PatentedApri|21,1874.

wir STATES PATENT DFFIGE. A

JACKSON O. BELKNAP, OF MOBILE, ALABAMA.

IMPROVEMENT IN REVOLVING (AS-LBURNERS.l

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 149,976, dated April 21, 1&74; application filed March 7, 1874.

To all whom t may concern Beit known that I, JACKSON O. BELKNAP, otl Mobile, Alabama, have invented a Revolving Gas-Burner, of which the following is a specification p The object of this invention is to produce a novel revolving gasburner for chandeliers, being both useful and ornamental.

Reference being had to the drawings, Figure l shows an elevation of the invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical central section of Fig. l.

A represents a basin, to contain liquid, with a gas-pipe, G, projecting through it in the center, and rmly attached thereto, the upper end projecting above the upper edge of the basin A. B is a circular iloat in the basin, with an opening in the bottom a little larger than the gas-pipe', in order thatY it may revolve freely about the pipe G, there being also a tube attached to the bottom and inside of the ilo-at larger than the opening and gas-pipe encircling them, which projects upward to the height ofthe top edge ot the iioat, which is to prevent the water from entering it; also another corresponding tube projecting downward to a desirable length on the bottom and outside of the oat, which also encircles the gas-pipe G, and which is to prevent the gas from escaping below the iioat through the water. O- is a series of flanges, arranged upon the inside of the wall or side of the iloat. D is one or more branch pipes connecting with the top of the gas-pipe inside the i'loat, and stationary, so curved as t bear exactly toward the flanges C. E is a series of burners, inserted in the margin or cover of the ioat, in an angular, oblique, or spiral form. They may branch from the center of the cover of the iioat.

Vhen the basin is filled with liquid, and the gas turned on, the gas passes with force from the tubes insides the oat against the langes, and escapes through the burners on the outside of the iloat, forcing the float and burners to revolve. The propelling power here is twofold-iirst, from the tubes upon the flanges inside the float, and also against the air by the escape of the gas through the burners outside, where the current escapes with force. The float, however, can be revolved by the use of the burners alone, dispensing with the inside tubes and ilanges entirely, which, in very small floats and burners, might be desirable, allowing an amount of gas to enter the iioat sut'ticient for the supply of the burners and for pressure.

This device differs from other revolving' burners, in having no pivot-point upon which to rest, nor hot-air fan-wheels to drive it; but is entirely sustained upon liquid, the gas-sup ply pipe keeping the float in the center of the basin, and the burners revolved by the ilow and pressure of the gas alone.

Havingdescribed my invention, whatI claim as novel, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. One or more gas-burners attached to a float, revolved upon liquid by the ingress and egress, or power and pressure, of gas, substantially as set forth.

2. The combination of basin A, iioat B, ilanges O, branch pipes l), and burners E, substantially as shown. l

J. 0. BELKNAP. Witnesses:

M. JncoBsoN, RUSSEL T. Con. 

